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dc.creatorSiles González, Ignacio
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-06T20:25:56Z
dc.date.available2019-02-06T20:25:56Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-24
dc.identifier.citationhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24701475.2018.1500793?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=UTA8VMRnxMHN25tGX4bY&forwardService=showFullText&doi=10.1080%2F24701475.2018.1500793&doi=10.1080%2F24701475.2018.1500793&journalCode=rint20
dc.identifier.issn2470-1483
dc.identifier.issn2470-1475
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/76550
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that transnational flows of knowledge, data, and technologies are not only an actual feature of the Internet, but rather a constitutive characteristic of its historical development. To make this case, it discusses how six countries in Central America-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama-connected to and through computer networks and technologies such as UUCP, BITNET, and the Internet in the first half of the 1990s. Drawing on archival research and interviews with protagonists of networking initiatives, this article argues that the establishment of these projects in Central America required forging a transnational network of collaborations, enabled by international organisations with presence in countries of the region. This study reveals how the Internet was imagined and enacted in a part of the world largely absent in academic literature. It thus broadens our understanding of the early development of computer networks in the global South.es_ES
dc.language.isoen_USes_ES
dc.sourceInternet Histories, pp. 2-17es_ES
dc.subjectBITNETes_ES
dc.subjectCentral Americaes_ES
dc.subjectComputer networkses_ES
dc.subjectHistoryes_ES
dc.subjectInternetes_ES
dc.subjectLatin Americaes_ES
dc.subjectUUCPes_ES
dc.titleThe Internet as a transnational project: Connecting Central America through computer networks (1990-1996)es_ES
dc.typeartículo original
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/24701475.2018.1500793
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Sociales::Facultad de Ciencias Sociales::Escuela de Ciencias de la Comunicación Colectivaes_ES


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